Sony Pictures CEO: nothing good ever came from the Internet

I wonder how much of Sony Pictures revenue is made up of DVD etc sales off internet merchants such as Amazon.com?<p>I also wonder how much additional merchandise they're also selling as a result of this global marketplace?<p>Similarly, netflix has boosted rentals of their movies by how much?<p>And lets not forget the direct download rentals aswell, off stores like iTunes.<p>It's not as if the Internet is making much of a dent on their bottom lines (in terms of ticket sales), I mean, this year, so far has been Hollywoods biggest year in terms of ticket sales/profit in the cinemas.<p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/02/business/fi-boxoffice2" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/02/business/fi-boxoffic...</a><p>Quote from the article:<p><i>"An increase in ticket prices also helped boost January's box office. The average ticket price was $7.29 last month, up from $7.18 a year ago. But attendance surged in spite of the higher cost. Audiences bought 141 million movie tickets in January, up 16% from the 121 million sold during the same month last year."</i><p>Yep, that internet stuff, really killing the movie business.

" He complained the Internet has “created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It’s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day." "<p>And this idiot gets paid millions of dollars a year!

The Internet is people. It's a much less formal place for interaction than something like a bureaucratic corporate system. But both are just people, and good things come from people.<p>Nina Paley released Sita Sings The Blues under Creative Commons because nobody was able to watch her film because studios like Sony Pictures passed her up. Roger Ebert called it one of his favorite films. It's a hilarious and moving movie that I wouldn't have seen if it hadn't been placed online.<p>Nina Paley isn't the Internet. She's an animator. But the Internet is where she released her movie. I'll also say that it's better than anything Sony Pictures has released in a long, long while. (sitasingstheblues.com for the interested.)

Hear that? That's the sound of a business model being made obsolete.

Probably he is only aiming for eternal fame. That quote might go around for centuries, like the "we estimate the global demand for computers to about 3 units" one.

The next generation of media companies must be laughing to themselves at how easy its going to be to eat Sony Pictures alive.

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." -Jack Valenti

He must feel really insecure about his job. I don't envy him.

Is the comment coming from Sony that different than if it came from the RIAA?<p>But however stupid the comments, if attention getting is part of his job... not bad.